Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1995

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1995.

In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here.

Red = Treasures
Purple = Favorites
Blue = Achievements
Gray = Decent/Noteworthy
Green = Unseen or Undecided
*** = This film was discovered after the year in question and added in a list revision.**
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1995

Heat
Sense And Sensibility
Before Sunrise
Smoke
Toy Story
Dead Man Walking
Babe
Safe
The City of Lost Children
Seven
Kicking and Screaming
The Usual Suspects
A Little Princess
Rob Roy
Persuasion
12 Monkeys
Casino
The Addiction
Get Shorty
Clueless
Ulysses’ Gaze
Clockers
Crimson Tide
The Quick and the Dead

Living in Oblivion
Leaving Las Vegas
Devil In A Blue Dress
Apollo 13
Blue in the Face
Nixon
To Die For
Nelly and Monsieur Arnuad
Richard III
The Underneath
Angels and Insects
Sabrina

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1995

…And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him (Severo Pérez) 2 x 50 Years of French Cinema (Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville) A Bucket of Blood A Midwinter’s Tale A Single Girl (Benoit Jacquot) All Things Fair An Awfully Big Adventure (Mike Newell) Anne Frank Remembered Antonia’s Line Bandit Queen Beyond Rangoon (John Boorman) Carrington (Christopher Hampton) Copycat Cyclo (Anh Hung Tran) Dadetown (Russ Hexter) Dead Presidents Deseret Desolation Angels (Tim McCann) Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die (Xavier Beauvois) En avoir (ou pas) (Laetitia Masson) Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-wai) Flamenco Flirt (Hal Hartley) Fluke (Carlo Carlei) From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rappaport) Funny Bones Georgia (Ulu Grosbard) Getting Any? (Takeshi Kitano) Ghost in the Shell God’s Comedy (João César Monteiro) Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-hsien) Heavy Hideaway (Brett Leonard) Indian Summer (Saša Gedeon) Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life (Stephen and Timothy Quay) Jefferson in Paris (James Ivory) JLG/JLG (Jean-Luc Godard) Jupiter’s Wife Kids (Larry Clark) La ceremonie (Claude Chabrol) La haine (Mathieu Kassovitz) Land and Freedom (Ken Loach) L’appat (Bertrand Tavernier) Le confessionnal (Robert Lepage) Le garcu (Maurice Pialat) Les Misérables Maborosi (Hirokazu Kore-eda) My Family Notes from Underground (Gary Walkow) On the Beat (Ning Ying)) Once Upon a Time . . . When We Were Colored Quatrilho (Fabio Barreto) Rendezvous in Paris (Eric Rohmer) Salaam Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) Scratch and Crow Shanghai Triad Spiritual Voices (Aleksandr Sokurov) Stuart Saves His Family (Harold Ramis) Tales from the Hood (Rusty Cundieff) The Addiction (Abel Ferrara) The Blade (Tsui Hark) The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood) The Brothers McMullen The Celluloid Closet The Convent (Manoel de Oliveira) The Flower of My Secret (Pedro Almodovar) The Horseman on the Roof (Jean-Paul Rappeneau) The Journey of August King (John Duigan) The Last Wish (Tikoy Aguiluz)* The Neon Bible (Terence Davies) The Short Life of Fire (Aureaus Solito) The Son of Gascogne The Star Maker The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi) The Wife (Tom Noonan) The Young Poisoner’s Handbook (Benjamin Ross) Two Bits (James Foley) Two Deaths (Nicolas Roeg) Underground (Emir Kusturica) Up, Down, Fragile (Jacques Rivette) Waati (Souleymane Cisse) Welcome to the Dollhouse When It Rains Zero Kelvin

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